In an interview with Music Recall magazine, Kihn revealed that when it came to penning his own breakup song, he had help from bass guitarist Steve Wright.
Kihn, who died in 2024 at age 75, once shared the backstory on “The Breakup Song.” In an interview with Like Totally 80s, he recalled pulling up to his house in his band’s tour van and finding all of his belongings piled up on the lawn.
The bandmates went to a Japanese restaurant where they began “pounding down hot sake.” “I didn’t know where else to go,” Kihn shared. “It was a cold, rainy night, and we were getting toasted. There was an old Japanese dude there at the sake bar, and he kept saying, ‘They don’t write ‘em like that anymore.’ I thought, ‘Yeah, damn. They don’t, do they?’ So we got the idea, we wrote that song probably in 15 minutes. All of the great songs are written quickly, by the way.”
In an interview with Classic Rock Revisited, Kihn revealed that the “uh uh uhs” he uttered throughout the song weren’t originally planned.
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It was not lost on Kihn that going so many albums without a hit wouldn’t have flown in later years. He once told Classic Bands, "'The Break-Up Song’ came out. It was our first Top Ten hit. That was our seventh album. We'd already had seven albums out. We were getting FM turntable play without hit singles 'cause that's the way it was back in those days. We would book a tour, rent a van pretty much, and drive all over, but you could play."
He also expressed gratitude for the long-overdue hit. "It wasn't until ‘The Breakup Song’ that we really exploded on the scene,” Kihn told Like Totally 80s. “I can tell you that life with a hit record is much better than life without a hit record.”
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